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In Pancevo, contracts for the purchase of 15 rural houses with accompanying gardens were ceremoniously handed over to refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia

Today, on May 6, 2021, in Pancevo, contracts for the purchase of 15 rural houses with accompanying gardens were ceremoniously handed over to refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia with residence in the territory of that city. The houses were purchased within the Regional Housing Program (RHP) in the Republic of Serbia, Subproject 9.

Funds for the purchase of these houses were provided from the donor fund of the Regional Housing Program, whose largest donor is the European Union. The value of the donation for each house individually is 11,000 euros.

The ceremony was attended by Vladimir Cucic, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Stevanovic, Mayor of Pancevo, Enrico Visentin, Program Manager of the European Union Delegation to Serbia, Ivana Jelic, Assistant Head of the UNHCR Department for Permanent Solutions in Serbia, Jovan Lazarov, Chief of Staff of the Director of the Public Sector Project Management Unit d.o.o. Belgrade and others.

"Life cannot wait, and that is why it is important that, despite the new coronavirus pandemic, we continue to implement the Regional Housing Program with full intensity," said Commissioner Cucic, adding that the work would continue at the same pace.

So far, the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration in Pancevo, with budget and donor funds, has permanently provided housing for 630 refugee families who came here in the 1990s, during the war conflicts in the former SFRY.

The Regional Housing Program is a joint multi-year program of the Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of Croatia, which aims to provide permanent housing solutions for the most vulnerable refugee families in the region. It is implemented with the support of the OSCE, UNHCR and the Council of Europe Development Bank, and is funded by the European Union, which is also the largest donor, as well as the United States, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.